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How to Handle Conflict as Christian Women
How we handle conflict as Christian women is so important because conflict can destroy the body of Christ and our witness if we don’t handle it well. For a group of people who are supposed to be known by our love and unity, we don’t do conflict well. It’s taken a lot of spiritual growth for me to learn better how to handle conflict. John 17:21 ESV That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. Learning how to live in this kind of unity…
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Winning the Mommy Wars
The term Mommy Wars refers to the contentious relationships between mothers over real or imagined slights, insults and thinly veiled criticisms over individual parenting choices. It is the high school mean girl, cafeteria sagas for “adults.” Moms criticize or judge based on their ideas of a perfect mother (which usually looks a lot like them, ahem). What would a “perfect” mom look like? We certainly get bombarded with all sorts of messages, don’t we? Based on today’s parent media standards, she might look a little like the list below. She would always be patient, kind, fun, and funny, never yelling or letting stress get to her. She would not work,…
